Hat-fastener.



No. 801,918. PATENTED 001:. 17, 1905.

E SGHADELI, JR

HAT FASTBNER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 20. 1905.

Inventor: 6M X/ZZMQL,

EMIL SCHADELI, JR, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

HAT-FASTENER- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 17, 1905.

Application filed May 20,1905. Serial No. Z61,130.

To (ti/Z whom, it TIT/(Ly concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL SCHADELI, Jr., of

Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hat-Fasteners, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings. I My invention is an attachment for hats, the device being designed to be placed Within the crown of the hat and secured thereto for the purpose of engaging the hair to hold the hat securely upon the head and prevent it being displaced by the wind or from other causes, this invention being designed more particularly for hats worn by women.

The invention is hereinafter fully described, and more-particularly pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which, with the reference characters marked thereon, form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a plan of the device detached, a part of the cloth guard being broken away. Fig. 2 is a plan of the interior of the device, showing same as whenlooking into the crown of the hat, a part of the guard being broken away. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section taken on the broken dotted line 3 3 in Fig. 1, parts being shown in various positions by full and by dotted lines. Fig. iis an elevation of one of the attaching-arms detached, the section being on the dotted line A in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is avertical radial section of one side of the frame, showing a binding tie for the component wires. Figs. 3, A, and 5 are drawn to a scale larger than that of Figs. 1 and 2.

In the drawings, A is a circular frame, preferably of circular concentric wires a b a, rigidly joined in horizontal planes by short radial bars or binding-ties (Z, Figs. 1 and 5, the whole constituting a light rigid frame for supporting and carrying the attaching-arms and movable parts. B designates a series of bent arms, preferably strips of sheet metal, secured rigidly to the middle wire Z) of the frame A and holding at their free ends short horizontal wires 6 as means for attaching the device to the hat. (Represented by dotted lines D in Figs. 2 and 3.) The arms B are flexible, but substantially non-elastic, and may be bent outward, as appears by dotted lines in Fig. 4:, to lit the device to hats of different sizes, the wires 0 resting against the under surface of the hat at the inner edge of the rim and secured thereto by stitches of thread or by other simple means.

The frame A carries a series of forks or branched pointed tines f, held in pairs to turn in vertical directions on the middle wire 6 of the frame, so as to be opened out to assume positions of inaction, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, or closed in at the points in positions of action, as shown in Fig. 2 and by dotted lines in Fig. 3. These forks or double tines are in positions and are operated to have their pointed free ends pass simultaneously into and catch the hair inclosed in the crown of the hat, the movement of all the forks upon the frame being downward and inward toward the center, as appears in-Fig. 2. The forks are held to turn freely on the holding-wire b and are substantially evenly spaced around upon the wire,beingheld against lateral movement along the wire by some well-known means, as simple stops or spacers 9, Fig. 1, of suitable kind secured to the wire.

'To actuate the series of forks or double tines f, I employ a slender elastic wire 71 preferabl y of spring-steel, passing in substantially circular form through loops '1: near the bases of the forks, the inner end of the operatingwire being secured at 70, Fig. 1, to the inner Wire 0 of the frame A. This curved or coiled steel wire is substantially horizontal and pierces the side of the hat with its free end extending outward in position to be caught by the hand of the wearer of the hat for the purpose of operating it and the forks, its extreme end being commonly supplied with an enlarged ornamental terminal or head Z of some kind. By drawing the actuating-wire it outward the circle of the wire where passing through the forks will be contracted to a smaller diameter, and so act to tilt the forks f backward by bringing their upper parts or bases inward toward the middle of the frame and the points outward or extended in readiness to move inward and enter the adjacent mass of hair. By pressing the actuating-wire inward or through the side of the hat the forks will be reversely tilted, and so cause the points to pierce the hair and firmly hold therein, and so act to hold the hat in place upon the head against the action of the wind or other agencies tending to disturb it. In all positions of the forks their points are sub-. stantiall y in a plane, and when they are turned back, as stated, in readiness to engage the hair they encounter the inner. wire 0 of the frame A, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, Which Wire forms a stop to limit their backward motions.

To the outer Wire a of the frame I secure a cloth or fibrous canopy C, acting as a protector to cover the hair and prevent it becoming engaged or entangled With the upper operative parts of the forks and the operating- Wire. This cloth protector may be of any convenient form and secured at its base to the circular Wire a and gathered at the center roughly in conical form. This protectingcloth (J, secured to the outer Wire (0, passes beneath the remaining Wires 6 c it and the base portions of the forks, as appears in Fig. 8, effectually separating the said parts from the hair.

When the hat is to be removed from the head, the Wire it is pulled outward therefrom to tilt the forks backward and Withdraw the tines from the hair.

When the hat is upon the head and the wire it is pushed inward. to secure the hat to place, as stated, the ornamental head lis near the side of the hat, presenting a comely appearance like that of the ordinary hat-pin.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A hat-fastener, comprising a circular frame consisting of parallel Wires and ties joining said Wires, a series of curved pointed tines in pairs held to turn on the intermediate Wire of the frame, said tines being formed with loops, and an actuating Wire passing through said loops.

2. A hat-fastener comprising a circularframe consisting of parallel-members of substantially the diameter of the hat, a seriesof forks held movably by the frame, means for operating the forks, and a fibrous protector for the hair secured to the frame.

3. A hat-fastener,having a frame consisting of a series of Wires formed in circles of dif ferent diameters and joined, a series of movable forks carried by the frame, and means for operating the forks, and a sheet of cloth beneath the frame and secured to the outer Wire thereof and extending upward through the middle of the frame.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 18th day of May, 1905, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

EMIL SCHADELI, JR

Witnesses:

ENos B. WHITMoRE, MINNIE SMITH. 

